How to speed up the loading time of Android 5.0(Lollipop) emulator?

Issue

I have created kitkat emulator and it is loaded fast in Eclipse ADT. But the lollipop emulator is very slow in loading. It tooks 30min(approx) to load. How to speed up this loading time. My system configuration is,

4GB RAM,Windows 7,Intel i5 Processer

My created AVD configuration is,

Screen:4.7 WXGA,

RAM:512 RAM,

VM HEAP: 120 ,

CPU :intel.

Is there any other options to enable/do?

Solution

Generally there is not that much you can do. The Android emulator is notoriously slow and Android 5.0 has an even bigger startup time compared to earlier versions because of the now by default enabled disk encryption.

After looking through the documentation I found that you can use -no-boot-anim to remove the boot animation which decreases startup time.

You can also try Genymotion which is much faster than the emulator that comes with the SDK.

My advice is: Just test your app on a real device and only resort to the emulator if you have to.

Answered By - Xaver Kapeller